Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-09-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.


NEWS In BRIEF.
Last years gross receipts OF the
mail service are placed at forty
eight million dollars.
Land has been purchased in
Warwick county, Va, on Which an
Italian colony will settle.
Hon. Fred Fl. Holiday is the
Democratic nominee Tor The House
of Delegates from louisa county.
J. T. Case will match JAY Eye
See to heat any trottcr in he world
best three in five in harness. Sl0,
900.
MIR. James w. Martin. of Orange
county. VA. a law partner OF eN
Governor Kcmpcr, has been nomI-
mated for The House Of Delegates.
Hon. John w. Daniel, OF Va, has
written to State Executive Com
mite expressing his Willingness to
work in the campaign anywher" he
may be assigned.
Prohibition is. making decided
Roadway in Florida. Within the
past two weeks five counties have
voted ON the question, and all went
.dry," some by large majoiltles.
Can't. Robert II. Tyler has been
nominated for the Legislature by
the Democrats of lrince William
county. The Manassas Gazette
speaks Of him in terms OF the high
est praise.
Hon. II. r. Pollard has been
unanimously renominaied Tor the
Hcusc of Delegates by the Demo
Gratis of King and Queen county,
Va. ltis not yet known whether
he viii accept.
Bishop Hansen, of Salt Lake, Is
lie latest victim OF this EdmnnlS
law. ac is called to account fol
having five wives, and stands Il
chance OF being consigned to one oi
The Utah prisons.
The period fixed by law for the
redemption OF the trade dollars has
expired. and Of s36,OuO.0O0 tina;
we're coined less than IS 600, 900
were presented for redemption
Most of them went 10 China.
The steamer Avalon, of 'Et
Maryland steamb boat company,was
/ totally hurnel at her wharf at
Fleeport, Va, on tue Great WI
comlco river. last Sunday night
Loss, S9O,UUU; insurance, SGs,000
1t has lcen asserted and never
denied that over 10000 "Unior
veterans who never were citizens
of the United States now reside II
Geimany;nd draw pensions month
~ ior assisting to ''Save the Union.
The Common Council of Rich
mond has voted down the reSclu
ton to APPROPRIATE fifteen thou
sand dollars for he eXpense I"
decorating the city, etc, at The
laying of the Lee monument cor
ner stone.
/ Tie steamer Essex, ot'the Weem!
Line, WAS almost completely des
treyed by fire III Baltimore on Is
inst. The steamer cost S60,0G0,ant
was built only two years ago. Th'
loss is estimated ut 100000 and il
covered by insurance.
-meetipg Was Jbeelldl i 2
; reception ana entertainment ant
llie grand reunion of all surviving
Confederate veterans. 1t is csJi-
mated that there will be $4,000
soldiers present.
Texas is well off in dogs, or bad
ly of, rather, for, according to til,
Galveston News, they cost til,
Slate so, 100000. There are 9,
800, 900 Of them. They cost then
owners 5 centsa dag, or S45, 0O0,Oc(
and they cost sheep owners So
600, 900 more.
The oldest man in Kansas i,
Willis Blackwell, who was born OF
The plantation of William Russell
in Fanquier county, VA, Novemlrl
20. 1775, and is consequently IL
years old. lie resides at Great
Bend, and is an inveieratc tobacco
chewcr.
A fall from a fourth story window
in Il Nebraska house failed tC
phase one of The lovelieSt Of heI
sex. She landed on her rubber
hustle. The elastic properties OF
lie contrivance WAS ncouSidcrable
as TO project the fragile and lovely
.olm nearly seventeen feet in mid.
air. She will recover.
NORFOLK, VA, Sept. 6.-Th
oyster gunboat Chesapeake left
this afternoon for the oyster beds
of james river, after which it will
visit other beds in its terrlsory, oc
cupying two weeks on tie cruise.
The officers report that but few
of the oystermen have gotten to
work yet, buttllat they are comm.
ort gradually.
WYTuEvILLE, VA, Sept. g.
Many of the Republican leaders of
this county are loudin their denim